Wake Up

It’s funny how we never seem to notice the beauty of things to be found right in front of our faces …

Cleaned the windows -the same windows we have had for the past 24 years. And even though they are cleaned often, it was the first time I noticed the precious window frame on the outside of the house, which is has an intrinsic beautiful wood snuggling up to the glass, being that pillar of support. It really does enhance the look of the frame. I was taken aback by its beauty. I always thought it was a man-made material, but that is because I did not look close enough. Had I done, I would have known that it  actually is very natural and very breathtaking.

It’s worth not taking anything for granted … it could be there the whole time and you search everywhere for that one precious thing. Open your eyes. See with your heart. Appreciate with your soul – before it is too late.

Something for Everything

I purchased a very beautiful photo frame about a year or so ago. It is round, antique-like effect and encrusted with little jewels all around it. At the top is the finishing touch – pink flower with leaves in a varnish finishing which picks up the colours of the rest of the frame. It has been sitting in my draw since the day I bought it. There was never the right photo to suit it, so it just sat there ever so quietly.

Once in a while, I would think that an ok-ish  image had come along

and I would place it into the frame, but soon enough would remove it because for some unbeknown reason, it didn’t seem to ‘fit’.

A few weeks ago, went to my niece’s birthday party. My sister and I had a photo taken. That photo came out so beautiful; too beautiful to just be sitting on my shelf or with the rest of the photographs- in a shoe box. I decided that I would go and buy a frame especially for it before it suddenly hit me that I may have something for it: I nearly had forgotten all about that lonely frame.

The photo was a little big, so I cut it slightly and it fit … and then I realised that the frame was meant for that particular photo – my sister is wearing a pink top which is in tune with the beauty of the frame that they both sit gorgeously together.

It makes me think that everything in this world has a fit somewhere. Life cannot be so cruel that there exists one thing without its partner.  Like my frame which has waited for the one to adorn it and like the photo that would be taken years after the frame was made ready to adorn and be adorned by it. It is always time that separates but when it is right then naturally somehow you find what is yours.

The taboos of internet ‘dating’

Was invited onto the BBC Asian Network earlier this week, on the Nihal Show which at the moment is being taken care of by the lovely Sonia Deol and there the topic of the day was the taboos around online dating. 

The word ‘dating’ does not sit well with our communities because linguistically it spells out a whole host of meanings. What I found interesting more so, was the negative regard held by so many people when it comes to using this avenue as  a means of trying to search for a partner. Forget for a moment what parents, culture, faith has to say about this, Sonia read out a message from a guy who had emailed the show and he said that he loved it simply because it was full of ‘desperate women who obliged him’. *Sonia did say that ‘oblige’ was the only best translation she could use of the word he actually had written …

And there was a discussion about people not admitting that they had used the internet to find a partner … well its a good thing that no-one has written a book about it huh? (*cough cough* *louder coughing* *bring out the Strepsils*)